Why Is My Adoptive Brother Like This?

[New Novel, Jia He, now underway. A bloody love rivalry and a battlefield of romantic chaos. Blurb at the bottom. Please add it to your collection, mwah~!]

[Blurb]

Six years ago, Emperor Wei destroyed Liang. The Princess of Liang faked her death and escaped, infiltrating Great Wei as Shen Yi, the adopted daughter of the Shen family, while secretly plotting to restore her kingdom.

To get close to the tyrant emperor, Shen Yi sets her sights on the Fourth Prince, who stands a good chance of ascending the throne.

No one knows that years ago, she and the prince shared a brief romantic affair. Sadly, it ended in a hurry, leaving them both in dire straits.

For the sake of her plans to restore Liang, Shen Yi steels herself to rekindle their old flame. But she never expected that he would not only fail to recognize her, but have completely forgotten her.

Her adopted brother, Shen Yu, whom she has only met a handful of times, is even more puzzling, with his strange behavior.

Shen Yu is handsome and aloof, reserved and inscrutable.

Shen Yi has heard that the woman he loved died six years ago. For her sake, he broke off the betrothal arranged for him in childhood, swore at her grave never to marry, and even threw away his promising future. Disillusioned with the world, he withdrew to a monastery.

She has never had any real dealings with this adopted brother, and they share no history, yet he repeatedly interferes with her marriage plans with the Fourth Prince.

After he ruins her plans time and again, Shen Yi grabs the man by the collar and pins him to the wall. With a half-smile, she asks if he might be in love with her.

All she gets in reply is a calm, matter-of-fact, "As your elder brother, I should naturally concern myself with my younger sister's marriage."

Shen Yi sneers, "Is that so?"

She turns around and marries the Fourth Prince, has a terrible falling-out with Shen Yu, and parts ways with him.

Later, when she learns the Fourth Prince intends to get rid of Shen Yu, she turns a blind eye.

Then, on the day her identity as a princess is exposed and everything comes to light, the lover who once treated her so tenderly personally traps her in the Golden Hall. With an inscrutable expression, the man reveals a secret.

Only then does Shen Yi understand that her adopted brother, who had always seemed so noble and immaculate, has told her the most outrageous lie.

Happy ending, one-on-one, both leads have no prior sexual partners, two powerful leads

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Historical Romance: Jia He

Wen Jiahe is a concubine's daughter. She is dull, mediocre, meek, and timid.

Song Qinglan is heaven's favored son, and young ladies who like him are as plentiful as fish crossing a river. She is just one insignificant little loach among them.

Jiahe never expected him to so much as look her way, so when Song Qinglan later said he wanted to marry her, she thought she must be dreaming.

But the marriage never came to pass. When Wei and Liang went to war and made peace, her elderly father sat by her bed and wept, wanting her to go to Great Wei as a bride sent to secure an alliance.

She was so useless that she did not dare refuse, and simply agreed.

Life after the diplomatic marriage was miserable. The emperor was cold and desireless, devoting himself entirely to affairs of state and never entering the harem. The first time Jiahe saw him, the man was surrounded by a grand procession and hurrying along. Catching sight of her kneeling by the road, he impatiently asked who she was.

The emperor did not even remember she existed.

So for a long time, Jiahe could not understand why this passionless, heartless man cared so much about Song Qinglan's existence.

He cared so much that when Song Qinglan really appeared before her, he roughly pinned her to the imperial desk and forced her to look at Song Qinglan waiting outside the window to be summoned. In a sinister, gentle voice, he said:

"Wen Jiahe, make it louder. Let him hear."

"Wen Jiahe, for the rest of your life, until the day you die, you can only be with me."

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The thing Song Qinglan regretted most in his life was watching helplessly as the bridal palanquin carrying her was borne away from him.

Later, he crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to see her, only to stand beneath the corridor and listen to her and that man entwine in desperate passion.

From then on, light and nobility, morality and justice, meant nothing.

All he wanted was Ji Xuanyin's head, to offer as a sacrifice at their wedding.

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Ji Xuanyin ascended the throne as a young man. From being surrounded by wolves and tigers to making every minister bow before him, he spent twenty years on that road.

By the end, all he cared about was power.

That diplomatic bride was ordinary and weak. He could snap her neck with one hand, and after meeting her once, Ji Xuanyin forgot all about her.

What he could never forget was the moment he heard her admit that she liked Song Qinglan. A sudden surge of brutality and helplessness rose in his heart.

There was no other way. He could only kill Song Qinglan, keep her bound at his side, and beg her over and over not to leave.

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As she grew up, the first thing Jiahe learned was to accept her fate.

For the first half of her life, fate swept her along. She drifted through it in a daze, never once in control of her own life.

Later, she finally wanted to make her own choices for once.

Theme: Learn to cherish the people right in front of you.